Could Trump Push To Combine The SEC And CFTC For Crypto Regulation?
President Donald Trump still waits for Congress to deliver a market structure bill for crypto.
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In a new article at the Brookings Institution, former CFTC Chair and Brookings Senior Fellow Timothy Massad argues the best way to regulate digital assets is to combine the two key agencies involved in U.S. market oversight into a single markets regulator with a unified digital‑asset mandate. Massad asserts President Trump could be just the president who can get an idea whose time may have finally come across the finish line. Although Massad has been critical in the past of Trump’s profiting from crypto, he stated in an interview, “…Look, he’s been able to do something that…
